Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Azure 688 509 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.99% 14.60% 9.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.69% 53.41% 41.25%
Number of salaries quoted 464 386 321
10th Percentile £25,450 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,156 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,400
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.85% -0.95%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,413 953 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.47% 27.34% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 968 695 715
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -6.50% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 202 £59,500 +8.18% 84
Essex 0 163 £37,500 +7.14% 58
Cambridgeshire -9 139 £53,000 +49.30% 74
Suffolk +28 86 £46,370 -7.26% 17
Norfolk +1 69 £55,000 +10.00% 17
Bedfordshire -18 27 £37,500 -22.68% 23
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 108 (15.70%) SharePoint
2 53 (7.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.18%) WordPress
4 9 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 2 (0.29%) CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 51 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.29%) Infor M3
2 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.29%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 204 (29.65%) Microsoft 365
2 120 (17.44%) Entra ID
3 103 (14.97%) Power Platform
4 94 (13.66%) Azure AI
5 85 (12.35%) AWS
6 79 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (9.16%) OneDrive
8 38 (5.52%) PowerApps
9 35 (5.09%) Power Automate
10 32 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
10 32 (4.65%) GitHub
11 26 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 26 (3.78%) GCP
12 20 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
13 19 (2.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (2.76%) SaaS
14 18 (2.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 17 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 77 (11.19%) Firewall
2 65 (9.45%) DNS
3 54 (7.85%) VPN
4 50 (7.27%) DHCP
5 36 (5.23%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.33%) Internet
6 16 (2.33%) Wireless
7 13 (1.89%) WAN
8 12 (1.74%) MQTT
8 12 (1.74%) VLAN
9 11 (1.60%) Network Security
9 11 (1.60%) VoIP
10 10 (1.45%) LAN
11 7 (1.02%) Broadband
11 7 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.58%) DMZ
12 4 (0.58%) PBX
12 4 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.44%) SSL
14 2 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (15.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 86 (12.50%) Power BI
3 59 (8.58%) MongoDB
4 43 (6.25%) Tableau
5 34 (4.94%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.60%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.31%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.87%) Looker
11 6 (0.87%) Milvus
11 6 (0.87%) MySQL
11 6 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.44%) Metadata
13 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 25 (3.63%) Git
2 12 (1.74%) JIRA
3 6 (0.87%) MLflow
4 4 (0.58%) Selenium
4 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.44%) git-flow
5 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.15%) ERwin
7 1 (0.15%) JMeter
7 1 (0.15%) Postman
7 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.15%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 323 (46.95%) Social Skills
2 68 (9.88%) Finance
3 29 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (2.62%) Marketing
5 15 (2.18%) Law
5 15 (2.18%) Legal
6 13 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (1.89%) Public Sector
6 13 (1.89%) Retail
7 12 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.87%) Advertising
9 6 (0.87%) Games
9 6 (0.87%) Multimedia
10 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.58%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.44%) Aviation
12 3 (0.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (23.11%) Developer
2 114 (16.57%) Analyst
3 107 (15.55%) IT Support
4 85 (12.35%) .NET Developer
5 82 (11.92%) Junior
6 77 (11.19%) Junior Analyst
7 71 (10.32%) Senior
8 70 (10.17%) IT Engineer
9 68 (9.88%) Support Engineer
10 56 (8.14%) IT Support Engineer
11 42 (6.10%) Security Analyst
12 38 (5.52%) Data Analyst
13 36 (5.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 36 (5.23%) Ethical Hacker
13 36 (5.23%) Junior Data Analyst
13 36 (5.23%) Junior Security Analyst
14 35 (5.09%) Graduate
14 35 (5.09%) Lead
15 32 (4.65%) Network Engineer
16 31 (4.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (18.31%) .NET
2 103 (14.97%) .NET Core
3 81 (11.77%) ASP.NET
4 80 (11.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 75 (10.90%) CSS
6 67 (9.74%) HTML
7 53 (7.70%) RESTful
8 38 (5.52%) React
9 35 (5.09%) Entity Framework
10 32 (4.65%) ML.NET
11 31 (4.51%) Node.js
12 29 (4.22%) Blazor
13 27 (3.92%) Terraform
14 23 (3.34%) AngularJS
15 22 (3.20%) HTML5 Canvas
15 22 (3.20%) JSON
16 21 (3.05%) ASP.NET Web API
16 21 (3.05%) Microsoft Graph
16 21 (3.05%) Vue
17 19 (2.76%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.81%) Driving Licence
2 39 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 36 (5.23%) Cyberattack
4 34 (4.94%) Cloud Native
5 16 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.02%) Clustering
11 7 (1.02%) Digital TV
11 7 (1.02%) iPhone
12 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.87%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.87%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
13 5 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 152 (22.09%) Windows
2 89 (12.94%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.47%) Linux
4 14 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (1.74%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.45%) Android
6 10 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.29%) Unix
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (22.24%) AI
2 151 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
3 132 (19.19%) Agile
4 109 (15.84%) Mentoring
5 104 (15.12%) DevOps
6 89 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
7 88 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 78 (11.34%) CI/CD
10 73 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (9.59%) Machine Learning
12 52 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 47 (6.83%) Computer Science
14 45 (6.54%) Roadmaps
15 40 (5.81%) User Experience
16 39 (5.67%) Service Delivery
17 38 (5.52%) Cloud Security
17 38 (5.52%) ITIL
18 37 (5.38%) Customer Service
19 36 (5.23%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 220 (31.98%) SQL
2 158 (22.97%) C#
3 116 (16.86%) Python
4 69 (10.03%) JavaScript
5 64 (9.30%) PowerShell
6 44 (6.40%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.63%) PHP
8 16 (2.33%) Java
9 12 (1.74%) C++
10 9 (1.31%) Bicep
10 9 (1.31%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.73%) R
12 4 (0.58%) Bash
13 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.44%) Ruby
13 3 (0.44%) Rust
13 3 (0.44%) Scala
14 2 (0.29%) Go
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 186 (27.03%) Azure Certification
2 77 (11.19%) Degree
3 44 (6.40%) CompTIA Security+
4 39 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
5 37 (5.38%) CompTIA CySA+
6 36 (5.23%) CEH
7 33 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (4.65%) CCNA
8 32 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.92%) Network+ Certification
10 15 (2.18%) Security Cleared
11 10 (1.45%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.31%) SC Cleared
13 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
14 7 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.02%) CCNP
15 6 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.87%) CISSP
16 5 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 3 (0.44%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.51%) QA
2 28 (4.07%) GDPR
3 27 (3.92%) SLA
4 20 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.03%) NIST
7 10 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.45%) GRC
8 8 (1.16%) NCSC
9 7 (1.02%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.73%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.58%) PMO
13 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.15%) HL7
14 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 144 (20.93%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.81%) Hyper-V
3 35 (5.09%) Docker
4 31 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 71 (10.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.58%) SCCM
5 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.44%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Grafana
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 484 (70.35%) Microsoft
2 96 (13.95%) ForeScout
3 49 (7.12%) Cisco
4 36 (5.23%) VMware
5 28 (4.07%) Apple
6 24 (3.49%) Google
7 19 (2.76%) Adobe
8 15 (2.18%) Meraki
9 13 (1.89%) Facebook
10 12 (1.74%) Databricks
10 12 (1.74%) Veeam
11 9 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.16%) Ubiquiti
13 7 (1.02%) Fortinet
13 7 (1.02%) SonicWALL
14 6 (0.87%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.87%) Dell
14 6 (0.87%) Sophos
15 5 (0.73%) Epicor
15 5 (0.73%) Sony